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SO WHAT" Harry shouted. "Don't you understand? If Snape gets hold of the Stone, Voldemort's coming b...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Courage is found in unlikely places.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

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J. R. R. TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

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It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

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James ThurberThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one...

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If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it do...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks...

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...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was ove...

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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

As she turns her head and focuses on me, I lift her palm to my mouth, press a kiss in its center. "Y...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, ...

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I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and n...

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It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...

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It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is...

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None but the brave deserves the fair.

Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to blee...

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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to...

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Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, ...

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John MuirThe Mountains of California

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...

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A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a d...

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Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot...

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When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depen...

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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

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Karl MarlantesWhat It is Like to Go to War

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery t...

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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do...

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If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terr...

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If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marl...

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It takes bravery to end a relationship.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

Foxes were dreaded animals. They were not large or fierce, like the bears and tigers that roamed the...

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That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. ...

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Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than w...

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If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our har...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

- You're going to have to be brave.- I'm always brave.- Braver than that.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear a...

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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are t...

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Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I know this is scary. You're hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can't turn on each oth...

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Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill?

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling...

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The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but ...

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Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...

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Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earn...

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Nadine GordimerThe Quotable Gordimer; or

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battl...

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We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

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Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to...

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I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coralin...

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She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave,...

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The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t...

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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or ...

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he...

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My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your b...

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The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scorn...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with...

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

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I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered....

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Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life ...

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And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep ...

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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...

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Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepp...

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But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each ...

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What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the sense...

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Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said no...

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